Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University grapplers will go on the mat tonight for the first time this season when they pit brawn and muscle against Columbia at 8 o'clock in the Hemenway Gymnasium...
...which prevented their false start and thus sounded the death-knell to the flying wedge in this game, but from this start the wedge developed rapidly and was the basis for Pennsylvania's famous "guards back" offense. It was the start of a series of momentum plays which combined brawn with momentum and had to be legislated out of the game...
...game of football would be improved vastly if the captain were to have the entire responsibility for the management of his team when engaged in contest. This idea is not a new one. The arguments that this ruling would make the game not merely a contest of the brawn and physical skill of the two teams, but also a contest between their brains, seems to hold a certain amount of water. No doubt competitive athletics conducted on this plan would approach more nearly the ideal set by English ideas of sport, in an informal cricket contest where play is interrupted...
Head cheese, mock brawn, differs from brawn in that other meat and/or meat by-products are substituted, in whole or in part, for corresponding parts derived from swine...
...What Cabinet officer protects the prudent housekeeper from "scrapple," "brawn," "souse...